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From: msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matt S Wartell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Summary: Oh, what a tangled web...
Keywords: sci.aquaria pitt.edu vote fraud
Message-ID: <20680@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 14:41:06 GMT
References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> <5066@ncar.ucar.edu> <20658@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matt S Wartell)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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In article <20658@unix.cis.pitt.edu> I write:
	[ a long list of apparantly bad votes ]

Of course, after reading the message I posted, someone had a fit
of creativity and changed the `real' names of the users that I
had mentioned.  On vms.cis.pitt.edu the following users have
had their names changed:

DROOPY (Mr. Droopy) is not logged in.
FIREMAN1 (Mr. Fireman) is not logged in.
CHARGING (Mr. Charging) is not logged in.
ADVISOR (Mr. Advisor) is not logged in.

And on fire.cis.pitt.edu, the mystery users got their own home
directories and their .project files were removed.  However,
as of this posting, the peculiar simultaneous logins on the
same terminal have not been changed (although I'm sure they will be
shortly).

[fire.cis.pitt.edu]
Login name: ed        			In real life: Ed Kamphaus
Directory: /usr/users/ed            
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
No Plan.

Login name: britt     			In real life: Tom Britt
Directory: /usr/users/britt         
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
No Plan.

Login name: bricker   			In real life: Randy Bricker
Directory: /usr/users/bricker       
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
No Plan.

I expect the indignant rebuttal to my data collection will come
shortly, pointing out the `forgeries' contained in my original posting.
I also imagine that those who chose to believe me will do so, and
that those who wish to think that I am lying will do so as well.
The student accounts that I reported as not having logged in since at
least April still show the same login times, but its only a matter
of time before they can be changed as well.

If there is any object lesson to be learned, it is that our medium
is not to be `trusted'; certainly not a novel lesson, nor one that
really gains much by repetition.

-- 
matt wartell, university of pittsburgh             msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu